"Please help me, please help me," the British-Iraqi
hostage was shown saying in a newly aired video.

She said that she could face the same fate as British
hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his captors earlier this month.

Al-Jazeera said on Tuesday that an unnamed group had
abducted Margaret Hassan, head of Care International in Iraq.

Hassan is married to an Iraqi and has dual British
and Iraqi nationality. She is known as a strong supporter of the Iraqis.

"I won't leave because I think it's important for my
staff that I stay with them. The strength comes from us supporting one another,"
Margaret Hassan told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before the outbreak of the
Iraqi war in March last year.

CARE International, the world's largest humanitarian
relief agency, has its presence in 72 countries. Enditem